S.02 H OUT US JAMAICENSIS. Mf.lochix 



2. DEPRLSSA. Fl.AT-rnUlTED. 



Erecla minor, Joliis o-^ads scrratis, petioUs geniculatis. Browne, 

 p. 276. 



Flowers solitary ; capsules depressed, five-cornered ; angles blunt-ciliate. 

 The smaller 77;f/of/;('a, ov broomweed, is found m many parts of Jamaica, and risc 

 xonmionly to ihe lieij^lit ot two or three feet, throwing out a few slender flexile branches 

 on all sides. The ieaves ot this plant (which are angular) spread themselves every day 

 about noon, to receive the heat oi the sun more freely ; but as the air grows cooler 

 tin y general 1\ rise npnght, ami stand aunost parallel to the stem or branches. This 

 mcciiunisui of the leaves is grcati_y torwarcied bj the knee in the footstalk of each 

 Brou'7^e. The tlowt-rs are produced mgly irom the side of the stalk, they are of a 

 fresh colour, and jii shape id;eihose ol the small dowei^ing jnallow ; capsules five-cor- 

 nered, rough, mclosing five mallovv shaped seeds. 



3. VEKOSA. VEINY. 



Althea spicata bttonide folio zillossissimo. Sloanc, v. 1, p. 218, t. 

 138, f. 1. 



Peduncles distinct, terminating, many-flowered 4 leaves ovate, serrate, veined, 

 tomentose underneath ; stem hairy. 



Stem woody, four feet high, covered with brown hairs, sending out slender branches, 

 on the lower ]5arls of which are alternate leaves, an inch and a half long, and nearly an 

 inch broad, serrate, with many longitudmal veins, on hairy {>etiicels ; the leaves are 

 also covered with a yellowish hair. The upper parts have no leaves for more than a 

 foot in length, and from their sides come out peduncles two inches long, sustaining 

 several small yellow flowers in clusters, having hairy calyxes, cut at tne top into several 

 Hcute segments. 



4. TOMENTOSA. DOWNY. 



jlbutUiin arboreiim spicalum, betonictp folio incano, fiore minore pur- 

 puveo. t'loane, v. 1, p. 219, t. 138, f. 2, 3. l-'rufesce/is, foliis 

 snbincanis, villosis, oblongo ovatis, crenato-serratis ; Jioribus mce- 

 mosis, cortice Jusco. Browne, p. 276. 



Flowers umbclled, axillary; capsules pyramidal, five-cornered; angles mu- 

 ' cronate ; leaves tomentose. 



This rises from six to ten feet high, growing generally in dry gravelly soils. The 

 stem is as thick as a man's leg, having a darkish-brown coloured baa-k. 'he branches 

 spread on every hand towards the top ; the leaves grow at the ends of the twigs, they 

 are whitish, soft, crenate, tomentose, standing on short footstalks. Peduncles um- 

 helled, many-flowered ; flowers large, purple, or light flesh colour according to 

 Browne, 



5. NODIFLORA. KNOT-FLOWERED. 



Abutilon fruticosum, foliis subi-ottindis serratis, Jioribus albis pentad 

 petalis ad alas foliorum cojigionieratis. Sloane, v. 1, p. 219, t. 

 135, f. 2. 



Flowprs conglovate, axillarj'; capsules globular; leaves ovate -acuminate, 

 smooth. 



This 



